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An [Acronym] for __f__ast __lex__ical analyzer generator.
[Flex] is used to generate [C] programs that perform pattern matching on text. It produces a single __lex.yy.c__ file which defines a single __yylex()__ function, which can compiled and linked with __libfl__ to produce an executable that analyzes its input for occurrences of regular expresÂsions. Whenever it finds one, it executes the correspondÂing C code.
-It is usually used in conjunction with [Bison]. The [Flex] code then passes the tokens it finds to the [Yacc]
style parser generated by [Bison].
+It is usually used in conjunction with [Bison]. The [Flex] code then passes the tokens it finds to the yacc(1)
style parser generated by [Bison].
As a completely spurious example this is what the rules file could look like:
%{
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%%
/*user supplied functions */
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+See also: lex(1) yacc(1)
